Question reference: S6W-14596
- Date lodged: 2 February 2023
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Current status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 February 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what the current average waiting time for elective surgery in NHS Lanarkshire is, broken down by procedure.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Government.
Statistics relating to the waits patients experience for inpatient or day case treatment at specialty level are published up to 30 September 2022 and can be found using the following link:
https://publichealthscotland.scot/media/17040/ipdc_nov22.xlsx
The statistics published in the tables above include the median wait on tab ‘2.1 Table’ and not an average. The median is used because an average (mean) can be skewed incorrectly by a small number of very long waits that are recorded in error in the national data.